It is because Chromium 95 broke VAAPI, there is no way to disable the Ozone platform in Chromium 95 which doesn’t work with VAAPI.
Check out my thread Video hardware decoding (VAAPI) no longer works on Linux after update - #4 by kmod
Issue is fixed for Chromium 96 and VAAPI is working for me again after today’s upgrade of Brave to 1.32.106 (based on Chromium 96)